Updated Feb 2010

This page has useful information and news for all artists.
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To see current exhibitions and events in the Bath area please see the events page.
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Contents - click on headings for each relevant section
Jobs for Artists
Exhibition Opportunities
Arts News
Classes, Training and Workshops 2010
Arts services
BANA Membership
BANA Newsletter


Jobs for Artists
All our jobs listings are now sent out to BANA members weekly -
although we may show one example of a current opportunity here.

Sailsbury Arts Centre artist workshops
£25 per hour
We are looking for experienced workshop leaders who would be interested in leading a range of imaginative arts and crafts workshops for all ages (although at the moment vacancies are for children’s workshops).
Please send a CV and covering letter including ideas for workshops and note that the position is subject to an enhanced CRB check. For further details please visit our website www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

Exhibition opportunities

Call outs for artist exhibitions 2010
Bath 'Art for Life' 2010 exhibition is open to any aspiring or professional artist. Profits go to a charitable campaign. See the website for details. www.artforlifebath.org

Bath Society of Artists 105th Open Exhibition running 15th May to 10th June 2010. Apply online at www.bsartists.co.uk

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol has two open exhibitions a year. Visit www.rwa.org.uk for details and an online application form.

Somerset Arts Week 2010. www.somersetartworks.org.uk Registration deadline 1st March and is open to members.
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Gallery Spaces for hire
Gallery Space at Bath Artists’ Studios
Bath Artists’ Studios is on the Upper Bristol Road opposite Victoria Park. It is an art studio complex, complete with school and education room and gallery.
If you have access to the internet www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk will provide you with lots of information. The Gallery is hired at £150 per week, or £70 for 3 days. We are flexible and welcome inquires for 5 days, 2 weeks etc.
Call the Studios on (01225) 482480 or email admin@bathartistsstudios.co.uk

If you are a member of BANA we have a list of all galleries to hire in the Bath/Bristol area with prices and further information.
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Arts News

Places to find current arts information
The Arts Council of England website is a great place to find out what's going on in your area as well as offering funding opportunities, advice, art related talks, publications and links to other useful information. www.artscouncil.org.uk

To keep up to date with Bath Festivals running throughout the year see www.bathfestivals.org.uk you'll find theatre and gallery listings, festival info and news on Baths Cultural Forum.

The Crafts Council acts as an exchange for knowledge of, support for and expertise on contemporary crafts. You can their news pages at www.craftscouncil.org.uk

For up to date arts news from around the world visit www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/news where you can also become a member offering your art for sale commission free in their online gallery.

Art Rabbit is an online international art venue directory. Despite its worldwide coverage it includes in depth local information for the South West with useful website links to venues and projects. It also has a very handy side menu which links to other venues and events close by. www.artrabbit.com
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nesa - North East Somerset Arts
Nesa is an arts development agency working within Bath and North East Somerset. They are interested in discussing new projects that address local priorities and empower communities www.nesacreativechange.org.uk
The website is updated regularly with local news and upcoming projects.
See their current projects and past reports on community arts initiatives at: www.nesacreativechange.org.uk
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Classes, Training and Workshops

Mosaic worshops at Bath Artists Studios and other venues
Courses are held in the gallery where Kate will be displaying a selection of her work.
Direct mosaic
Tuesday 20th April 2010
10.30am - 5pm
Fee: £70 includes materials
A basic 1 day course for beginners.
Mosaic tessarae and stained glass will be used.

Shaping and placing of tile
Wednesday 21st April 2010
10.30am - 5pm
Fee: £70 includes materials
How to convey energy, movement, rhythm or calm in your mosaics by shaping and placing the tiles.
This 1 day workshop will explore possibilities of shape and placing and help you to cut the shapes you want to convey your message.
You can make several small pieces or one larger piece about A4 size.
This course is for returners or improvers.
Mosaic tessarae will be used.

Colour and tone
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd April 2010
10.30am - 5pm both days
Fee: £150 includes materials
This 2 day workshop will introduce you to the principles of colour and tone.
We will briefly look at the overall effects of colour contrast in mosaic, before going on to make studies in tonal composition.
This course is for returners or improvers.
Mosaic tessarae will be used.

For more information on any of these courses please email Kate
kate@rattraymosaics.co.uk or tel: 01749330193
See past students work on my blog http://katerattray.wordpress.com
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Weekend mosaic workshop (residential and non-residential)
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd May 2010

The Ammerdown Centre
Radstock, Bath
Somerset BA3 5SW
Tel: 01761 433709

Kate will introduce the course with a presentation of historical and contemporary mosaics. Inspiration for design will be aided
by a tour around the beautiful grounds and gardens of Ammerdown.
The course aims to put into practice the basic methods of mosaic making.

Students are encouraged to develop their own ideas whilst lots of individual advice, demonstration and support will be given.
Mosaic tessarae , stained glass, coloured mirror and milliefiori will be used.

Email centre@ammerdown.org for fee details and to book.
Or visit their website www.ammerdown.org

See Kate’s website www.rattraymosaics.co.uk
See past students work on her blog http://katerattray.wordpress.com
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Other Bath Artists Studios Classes
Bath Artists Studios classes currently running weekly until March 2010 (see www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/classesworkshops.html <http://www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/classesworkshops.html> for details and prices)
Monday is 'Drawing from Life' with Saied Dai and 'Life Painting & Drawing' with Charlotte Edge
Tuesday is 'Long Pose Painting' with Sue Larner and 'Life Drawing for all Levels' with Felicity Bowers
Wednesday is 'The Art of Portraiture' with Michael Chaitow, 'Life Modeling in Clay' with Sue Larner and 'Printing classes' with Richard Lawrence
Thursday is 'Creativity through Watercolour and Mixed Media' with Michael Chaitow
Saturday is 'Drawing the Costumed Figure' with Felicity Bowers, 'Life Drawing' with Felicity Bowers and 'Printmaking by Hand' with Felicity Bowers
Sunday is 'Life Art Workshop' with Sue Larner

If you would like to be added to their mailing list and receive details of all forthcoming events please contact the Administrator at the BAS, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath BA1 3AJ, call 01225 482480, or email admin@bathartistsstudios.co.uk
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Workshops and classes at Universities, College’s and Schools
The University of Bath has weekly classes in dance, music and visual art including ceramics and stained glass. Find out more at www.bath.ac.uk/icia/classes
For further details or to receive their free season brochure call 01225 386777 or email ICIAinfo@bath.ac.uk
Listen to the ICIA Arts Show with Emma and Paul every Tuesday, 6-7pm, 1449am URB

Bristol Drawing School holds weekly classes and regular short courses. www.drawingschool.org.uk

City of Bath College has many evening and short classes in the arts. See their latest prospectus of courses at the courses page: www.citybathcoll.ac.uk

Norton Radstock College runs courses in art including blacksmithing and jewellery. Find them at www.nortcoll.ac.uk
BANA member Felicity Roma Bowers teaches Tai Chi, Life drawing and printmaking in Bath see her website for details www.felicityromabowers.co.uk/ www.felicityromabowers.co.uk

Bath Artists Printmaking Courses
Woodblock Printmaking - 1 day, Sat Feb 20th 10.30 - 4.30
Tutor: Peter Collins:Tel 01453 762846 or pcdesign@talktalk.net Cost £45 + materials (£5-10)
You will be able to complete and print a small block from your own design. Block and tools provided.
Peter has been a printmaker for over 20 years, tutor at B.A.P. and Urchfont Manor and Higham Hall, Cumbria, since 1990.

Textural Monoprinting - 2 Mon evenings, March 8th & 15th 6 - 8.30pm
Tutor: Angela Lai Yen Tel: 07841204689 Cost £50 including materials.
This is a fun workshop where you will produce instant prints using a range of tactile materials. You will be able to experiment with layering texture, colour and abstract imagery. You will also learn the technique of chine colle. Come with an open mind and creative fingers.

Drypoint & Carborundum - 2 Saturday Mornings 10-1.00pm, March 20th & 27th
Tutor: Wendy Batt Tel: 01225 316871 Cost £50 including materials
You can achieve soft lines and rich blacks without acids and chemicals. You can use direct drawing painting skills on metal or plastic to print from. Make the plate the first week and print it the next.

Simple Lino Cuts - 2 Monday Evenings 6-8.30pm, April 12th & 19th
Tutor: Angela Lai Yen. Tel:07841204689 Cost: £50: to include all materials
In this workshop you learn the basic techniques of lino cut. i.e.transferring the image onto lino, cutting into lino, and taking a print from lino. You will get the opportunity to produce a two colour print. This workshop is good for beginners or those refreshing their linocut techniques.

Wood block Printmaking
1 day-Saturday- 10.30- 4.30 p.m., May15th
Tutor: Peter Collins:Tel 01453 762846 or pcdesign@talktalk.net Cost £45 + materials (£5-10)
You will be able to complete and print a small block from your own design. Block and tools provided.
Peter has been a printmaker for over 20 years, tutor at B.A.P. and Urchfont Manor and Higham Hall, Cumbria, since 1990.

Rabley Drawing Centre Courses
See their website at www.rableydrawingcentre.com
for courses held at Rabley Barn, Mildenhall, Marlborough,Wiltshire.
Email: info@rableydrawingcentre.com
Telephone: 01672 511999
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Forkbeard’s media courses
The courses cover many media such as animation and fim making and theatre and are located at Forkbeard's Waterslade Studios in the heart of rural Devon. Set in 2 acres of fields, Waterslade comprises a modern studio complex equipped for set and prop construction, film and video edit suites and performance teaching.Forkbeard’s creative base in Devon is fully equipped to accommodate people with disabilities.
Booking:
For further information and application forms, please contact:
Deborah Harrison - Administrator
Forkbeard Fantasy
PO Box 1241
Bristol, BS99 2TG
Email: ff@forkbeardfantasy.co.uk
Tel: 0117 930 9933
For more info and dates and details of all Short Courses and Summer Schools please go to:
http://www.forkbeardfantasy.co.uk
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Artsplan courses in Plymouth
This independent, national youth arts development agency
is pleased to introduce Theatre Royal Plymouth as the new Artsplan Training Centre for the South West.
There are two courses taking place at TR2 during 2010:
‘Creating Safety: child protection and youth arts’ on the 26th April and ‘Evaluating Youth Arts Projects’ on the 18th October. Please find further course details on their website.
Artsplan currently has a great offer running, if you book on to two or more Artsplan courses then you can request 10% discount off the total course fee.
For more information on other courses taking place in 2010 please visit: http://www.artswork.org.uk/projects/artsplan/training
For further information or to book a place on a course please contact the Artsplan Team via: 02380 682535 / artsplan@artswork.org.uk.
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ARTS SERVICES 

Artwork documentation and installation
Photography - Installation - Transportation
High Quality / Reasonable Rates
Photographic copy of artwork and gallery installation shots. Post production and design work for reproduction and catalogues.
Installation and handling of artwork for exhibition in gallery, commercial and domestic spaces.
Transportation of artwork anywhere in UK.
Clients include: Arnolfini, Damien Hirst and the Royal Photographic Society.
For more information, please contact Tony Smith
Email: smith_to@blueyonder.co.uk
Telephone: 0117 902 4083 / 07796 773689

Arts Consultants
Are you an arts consultant?
Register now for the new free ArtPeople section of www.arts-consultants.org.uk

Media Art Bath Equipment for hire
Media Art Bath have the following equipment available to hire at subsidised rates:
A set of G4 laptops for workshops or individual hire (with extra memory etc)
Up-to-date software packages for audio and visual post-production
A set of identical exhibition standard projectors
Large LCD as well as mobile projection screens
A set of identical digital moving image cameras
Sound recording and exhibition equipment
Media Art, Bath
Abbey Chambers
Kingston Buildings, off York Street
Bath BA1 1LT
01225 442591
www.mediaartbath.org.uk
MAB is an Arts Council England South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council Regularly Funded Organisation.
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Mobile Cinema Unit
PROJECT! is a resource available to communities in the Bath & North East Somerset Region. Four organisations have joined forces to operate a mobile cinema unit in the region. They are The Bath Film Festival, Invention Arts, Suited and Booted Community Video and Media Art Bath.
 
The UK Film Council have provided funds for the purchase of a set of equipment that can be easily transported and installed in varying locations both indoor and out. The equipment will be used to take film and artist projects to venues across the region. The four organisations will be programming activity for the equipment and also opening it up as a hireable resource to others who wish to make use of it. Projects will include Film Clubs and Associations, festivals, screenings, workshops and events. Material will come from a range of genres including art-house cinema, film classics, artist moving image projects and home-grown projects.
 
For further details on PROJECT! and the four organisations please call
01225 396 440 or go to:
www.mediaartbath.org.uk
www.bathfilmfestival.org.uk
www.suitedandbooted.org
www.inventionarts.org.uk
PROJECT! Mobile Cinema Unit includes, cinema quality data projector, dvd player, sound system, screen, flight cases and all necessary cables and accessories. It can be set up in approximately one hour and be a fully functioning cinema wherever you are.
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nesa exhibition kit hire
nesa has a full professional exhibition kit, comprising of screens, lighting, display cabinets and shelving, plinths and a pedestrian rope and pole guidance system. There is also a data projector, freestanding screen and OHP. 
Please note: all hirers must have their own insurance to cover loss or damage to any equipment hired. For further information contact nesa on 01761 437251 or email info@nesa.uk.com

Male life models
1. Male Life Model available - flexible hours and prices
Based in Bath
Call Chris Adams - 07504074828

2. Experienced Male model - Simon - 07885 439071
www.malelifephotographicmodel.com

3. Martin - 50 year-old male living just outside Sherborne in Dorset, 5’ 10” tall, of reasonable build. I consider myself an experienced model with a good reputation.
Please contact me as follows:
Landline: 01935 813127 (has answerphone)
us@gloyens.wanadoo.co.uk
I charge £12.00 per hour and ask for a reasonable gesture towards my petrol

Studios for rent
None at present - if you know of any please do contact BANA and we can advertise the space for you.
There is a waiting list you can join at Bath Artists Studios for space. Please email admin@bathartistsstudios.co.uk
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BANA Membership
Artist Membership of BANA is open to any artist living or working in or around the Bath area, who is committed to professional practice.  Artist membership includes a page on this web site. Membership currently costs £20 a year.

There are also membership categories for membership with Public Liability Insurance, Artist Groups and Art Education Institutions, as well as the BANA Business Group, a corporate sponsors’ membership, which includes advertising throughout the year. 
To join BANA go to the Join BANA page and click on your choice of membership.

Public Liability Insurance for Artist Groups and individual artists
There are two membership categories offering Public Liability Cover for your arts activities of up to £5m: Artist With Cover (for individuals, £50 a year) and Artist Group With Cover (for groups, £145 a year). Full details of the policy are available from the office and from the Join BANA page of this site.

BANA Newsletter
An 8 or 12-page Newsletter is sent out bi-monthly to all members and other contacts on our mailing list. It contains network news, articles, opportunities, exhibition listings, and arts-related classified adverts. Listings are usually free for BANA members subject to space, and cost 40p per word for non-members / commercial organisations. Prices for box adverts start at £12.50, or £50 for half a year of advertising on our website and in the newsletter. Full details of prices are available from the office.

The deadline for the bi-monthly issues are usually the 11th of each month preceeding the magazine publishing date. If you would like to submit listings, adverts or an article for inclusion in a future issue, or to request back copies or discuss including inserts in the next issue, ring the BANA office: (01225) 471714 or email:
newsletter@bana-arts.co.uk
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